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Named after one of Canada's most prolific cartoonists, the awards were established to honour excellence in artistic or alternative comics.
A new prize designed to recognize non-traditional or more experimental works, entitled the Pigskin Peters Award, went to Vancouver illustrator Julie Morstad for her first comic work Milk Teeth.
Organizers also inducted Wright and four other cartoonists into a hall of fame entitled Giants of the North.
The idea began in Spring 2004.
We have a nominating committee, which we're in the process of putting together now. We have usually five people – an odd number – made up of people from across the spectrum. So we have Jeet Heer, Chester Brown, Jerry Ciccoritti, we have Sean Rogers who writes a comics blog for The Walrus, and then Bryan Munn, a retailer and critic from Guelph. So we have those guys on it for this year on the nominating committee.(...)And then from that point we choose our prize jury from a wider cross section of society and we throw them in "The Thunderdome" as we like to call it. We have another dinner with those people and they pick the winners. We tend to have two or three comics-based people on that jury and then the rest are kind of balanced off.
We try and reach out to the wider culture as much as possible in everything we do. This also extends to our ceremony, which we insist is "jeans-free" – at least for the organizers and presenters. So it's a costume-free zone. As a result, we've had some nice things said about us.
The award will be called "The Egghead", named for Doug Wright's preferred name for his Nipper character.
